Saturday, July 17, 2010

BOTH WRONG

Sports have long been held up as good way to keep kids out of trouble and teach values that will help through out life. Somewhere along the way something got flipped and no one paid much notice or just did not care. Think about the following everyday happenings.
Watching kids playing in a sports game and you will notice that the parents tend to be a little crazy. Yelling at officials and coaches alike if disagree with a game decision. There seem to be two main groups of parents, one that believes in win at any cost and the second is almost as bad teaching that it does not matter how you play as long as you have fun since no one should feel bad and all should be rewarded the same win or lose. The win at any cost crowd want the increased prestige & money/opportunities that come with winning. We see this in to many of to-days political leaders as they believe everything is about them and the rules they put in place only apply to the regular people not them or those wealthy individuals who help them stay in power. The other group seem to want everyone to have not the same opportunity for success but to receive the same rewards regardless of efforts or applied abilities.
Ask yourself would you really want to play a game with someone who breaks the rules(cheats) to "win" the game or someone who puts forth no effort and does not care about outcome. Both make the game worthless and waste of your time.
Remember the old saying of - cheaters never win and winners never cheat -. We now have to many that believe - get ahead at any cost and winning is all that matters- as you only go around in this life once so get all you can anyway you can since no one is more important than yourself. The other group worships under banner of 'from each according to ability to pay and to each according to their need regardless of effort. This is no more than legalized stealing and leads to mutually shared poverty.
With the win at any cost mentality why do we wonder at corrupt elected officials, corporate greed, tax cheats, embezzlement, employee thief, shoplifting, insurance fraud, crooked repair shops, fraud & abuse of government service programs, etc. When combined with those who believe in legalized stealing is it any wonder that we are facing financial, moral and social collapse
Now you have an idea of why belief in evolution is so important in our society, it is a very disturbing thought that we were created by God. Since if we were we would have to answer to Him for failure to follow His law and the accepting of Jesus Christ His son's payment for our sins.
An unacceptable thought for any who have not studied the Bible to determine how to have a personal relationship with God through His son Jesus.
The stakes can get no higher than to reject the Bible as God's word and not find out until to late that wrong decision was made.

2 comments:

  1. good day one...havent been online for a little while, really enjoyed reading this post,thought provoking and well written, blessings :)

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  2. A, - agree time is getting harder to find these days, but have time to pray. Hope things well with you.

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